He who sups with the Devil must fish with a long spoon." "You mean that you defend that sort of thing--that you openly stand for it ?" "I stand for nothing, sir," replied Gideon Vetch sharply, "except justice.

I stand for a square deal all round, and I stand against the exploitation or oppression of any class.

This is what I stand for, and I have stood for it ever since I was a small, gray, scared rabbit of a creature dodging under hedgerows." It was the bombastic sophistry again, Stephen told himself, but he met it without subterfuge or evasion.

"And you believe that such people as Gershom can serve the cause of justice through dishonest means ?" he demanded.
"I'll answer that some day; but it's a long answer, and I can't speak it out here in the cold," responded the Governor, while his blustering manner grew sober.

"Gershom is a politician, you see, and I am not.